Writing-tablet.



PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

P. T. LBMASTER. WRITING TABLET.

APPLICATION FILED AP'RJZ, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT QEFICE.

WRITING-TABLET.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed April l2, 1905. Serial No. 255,110.

To all w/tom/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PLEASANT T. LEMAsTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spartanburg, in the county of Spartanbur and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vriting-Tablets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to writing-tablets, and particularly to a tablet adapted for use in connection with telephones as a convenience in receiving messages and orders, the same having a continuous sheet applied in the form of a roll and adapted to be unreeled and detached as it is used. By using a double sheet of paper on the roll and interposing a sheet of carbonpaper duplicates of rnessages or orders may be easily procured.

The objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of my device clamped to a telephonebattery box. Fig. II is a plan view. Fig. III is a plan view of the base-board, and Fig. IV is a detail view of the clamps.

Referring more specifically to a detailed description of the drawings, wherein like reference-numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, l designates the base-board and is adapted to be secured by any suitable means, such as clamps 2, to the top of a battery-box 12 of the ordinary telephone. At one end of the base-board is mounted a heavy or weighted spindle 3, which is adapted to receive a roll of paper and to hold the same in frictional contact with the base-board to prevent the paper from beinfr run out loosely from the roll. This spin le 3 is mounted upon inclined links 4, which are pivoted to the base at 5 and secured at 6 to the spindle. These links serve to hold the roll to the base-board as the paper is used up and as the roll decreases in size.

Transversely spanning the base-board and arranged at different points on the same are two guide-bars 7. These guide-bars are downturned at their ends, and said ends are provided with slots through which pass adjusting-screws 8 ,which engage the base-board. This construction permits of the adjustment of the guide-bars 7 relative to the base-board l in order that paper of different thickness maybe used. The guide-bar placed at the end farthest from the roll serves as a knife upon which vthe paper may be torn off as it is pulled from the roll. A portion of the baseboard is cut away, as indicated at 9, to allow the operator to readily grasp the paper to detach it.

The base-board is clamped to the batterybox by clamps 2, which are formed with three prongs 2, two of the same being adapted to engage the battery-box and the third to engage the bottom of the base-board. The clamps are held in this position by screws or bolts which pass therethrough and enter the base-board. To the bottom of the base-board is secured a clip 10 for the purpose of holding a pencil or the like.

11 designates a plate which is secured at the head of the base and is provided with an eye which is adapted to engage a hook or projection to suspend the device on a wall.

I-Iaving thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a base-board, a pair of inclined links pivotally connected to and extending upwardly from the base-board, a spindle carried by the links to receive a roll of paper and adjustable guides mounted upon the base-board and arranged to receive the free end of the paper.

2. The combination of a base-board, a pair of inclined links pivotally connected to and extending upwardly from the base-board, a spindle carried by the links to secure a roll of paper and guides extending across the base-board having downturning ends adjustably secured to said base-board.

3. The combination of a base-board, a pair of inclined links pivotally connected to and Vextending upwardly from the base-board, a spindle carried by the links to receive a roll of paper, guides extending across the basevboard, having downturned ends provided with slots and fastening devices passing through same adjustably securing the guides to the base-board.

lIn testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PLEASANT T. LEMASTER. Witnesses:

ANNA BLACK, L. P. EPTON.

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